Game News New Game: 4th Battalion

[Spazmo]

Tags: 4th Battalion; MISTLand

In the wake of the announcement earlier this week of <a href=http://rpgcodex.com/index.php#3746>Game Factory acquiring MiST land</a>, the pubisher is announcing a new title by the developer: the action RPG 4th Battalion.<blockquote>The game blends together two most popular genres – action and role-playing. Story of 4th Battalion transfers us to the far future, when mankind has colonized the entire Solar system. But war is always there if humans are involved. Crisis of power between Earth’s colonies which were in good relations just yesterday leaded to a full-scale space war, and the main battlefield of this war becomes planet Mars.
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Our hero - young and promising squad leader of a newly created Order of Crusaders – the new power, called in to stand firmly in a global chaos and give the System a chance to survive. He arrives on Mars by an order to join the Heavy Crusaders Battalion that is currently forming up – the 4th battalion – the one and only Heavy Assault Crusaders’ battalion of the System!</blockquote>Follow the <a href=http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=postmessage&boardid=1&id=0&threadid=59336>link</a> for a rather ambitious list of features.<br>
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[Claw]

Wow, a blend of action and role-playing! That sounds intriguing, if only for novelty value. :D

 

[obediah]

I can say two things with certainty:

1) A game that implemented that list of features would be awesome.

2) This game, if completed, will suck.

 

[Crnobog]

The only feature I see there is the ability to drive vehicles, the rest is just standard hype bullshit

 

[Grifman]

You know, Paradise Cracked and COPS 2170 sounded good too . . .

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Sigh, another action-rpg, another redefining for the RPG. Poor RPG, hasn't it be defined enough?

 

[PrzeSzkoda]

No, according to Sarvis.

EDIT as an afterthought:

And the guys working on Teh Witchar.

 

[kris]

Impressive feature list... not that it is impressive to make a impressive feature list. :D

 

[Spazmo]

The only feature I see there is the ability to drive vehicles, the rest is just standard hype bullshit

Their stuff about thousands of units is different... of course, one has to wonder if the end game will lean towards more action RPG or RTS with heroes who get lost in the throngs of thousands.

 

[bryce777]

It seems to have genre redefining marketing, at least.

 

[Spazmo]

I don't know. I didn't see any mention of realistic soil erosion in there.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Or pyrotechincal dogs.